Short Text Note by David Megginson (reply)

2025-02-24 15:27:06 UTC

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> One word that is interesting is 'knife' Middle English pronounces the 'k'! K NiF Ah something like that

Blame the Danelaw. The Anglo-Saxons had a perfectly good word that was right in their name ("sax"/"seax"), but people just *had* to replace it with the Scandinavian word "knifR". 😕

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David Megginson on Nostr: wrote > One word that is interesting is 'knife' Middle English pronounces the 'k'! K ...